[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#630363: Bug#630363: Bug#630363: Any news about the libv4l inclusion?

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs at debian.org> writes:

> Op zondag 30 oktober 2011 23:56:20 schreef Gregor Jasny:
>> are there any news regarding the inclusion of libv4l(-dev) into 
>> ia32-libs? I'm raising the severity because I'm cross compiling a 
>> crippled i386 version at the moment.
>
> I do not agree with your assessment of this bug's severity.
>
> You asked about in what term ia32-libs will be removed. I cannot say anything 
> definitive about that at this point. However, what I can say is that it would 
> preferedly not be included in the next stable release, but if that seems 
> impossible, it would definately not be gaining new rdeps. So whatever we add 
> to ia32-libs in unstable, will not be effectuated in the next stable release.
>
>
> Thijs

The big question on my mind is:

Have you (Gregor) tried multiarch instead of building a 32bit flavour
for amd64?

Because I would rather spend a day fixing multiarch, if there are any
problems with/for v4l stuff, than an hour on ia32-libs.


The other problem is that cross compiling only works for amd64 and not
for ia64. So those v4l libs would only be usefull for half the ia32-libs
archs.

MfG
        Goswin